League goes back to 8-game schedules

1:34 AM,
Oct. 4, 2012

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The Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Wednesday afternoon, among other items, that the league will remain at eight league games per football team when Syracuse and Pittsburgh join the conference in 2014.

The ACC had previously said it would go to nine league games with the expansion, but that decision was reversed on Wednesday on the heels of Notre Dame joining the conference as a partial member. The Fighting Irish will play five ACC games each year when they join the league.

The decision should please the ACC's football coaches, who had been critical of the nine-game slate. As Florida ...